Word: saipan
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...most of the 424 years after Magellan called at Guam, the people of the Marianas had little but grief at the hands of their Spanish, German and Japanese masters. But U.S. suzerainty is something different. There was word last week that an election had been held on Saipan...
...former policeman and government official at Yap, Chief Sablan went to a German school on Saipan, speaks English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chamorro, Carolinian. In his new job, something like an American mayor's, he is responsible to Navy civil affairs officers...
...last week a heavy-jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting with new orders, showed them to the boss. Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay read them without a flicker of expression. Said he, seeming scarcely to open his lips: "File them and we will move tomorrow...
...Guam, Saipan and other islands long conquered by the U.S., Jap soldiers holed up in the hills still surrender by twos and threes, only occasionally by squads. But on Okinawa, even before the battle had ended, there were some surrenders in platoon strength, a few in greater numbers. Japanese prisoner compounds were populated by the hundreds...
...losses between last November and March were higher than could be revealed at the time. Many planes shot up over Japan were being lost on the way home. Dumbo rescue planes could save most of the men who hit the water between Iwo and Saipan, but could recover almost none from the freezing water between Tokyo and Iwo. Morale and combat efficiency among B-29 crews are sky-high nowadays; it was not so in the months before last March...